Tag: Shanghai

Set during WWII in Shanghai, "migr" is a Romeo-and-Juliet musical that explores the love story of a Chinese woman and a Jewish man against the backdrop of Jewish refugees finding sanctuary in Shanghai during the Holocaust.
"Emigr" is a new musical drama about the Jewish community in Shanghai during World War II, focusing on two Jewish brothers who flee to Shanghai and encounter a Chinese population also affected by war.
During World War II, the Mir Yeshiva students and their teachers were forced to flee Nazi-occupied Poland and Lithuania.
The article criticizes the novel "The World and All That It Holds" by Aleksandar Hemon, calling it disappointing and lacking in substance.
Yang Meng, one of only a few Chinese academics fluent in Yiddish, recently taught the first Yiddish class ever at Peking University in Beijing.
Cecilia Chiang, the renowned chef and owner of The Mandarin restaurant in San Francisco, was a prominent figure in the city's culinary scene from 1961 until its closure 30 years later.
In "Crazy Rich Sephardim" by Jonathan Kaufman, the author focuses on the interconnected stories of the Sassoon and Kadoorie families, two prominent Sephardic Jewish dynasties.